Stephen Crane : a life of fire /
Life of fire
Paul Sorrentino.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (viii, 494 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Final days, January-June 1900 -- The wrenches of childhood. Roots and beginnings: 1635-1871 ; Childhood: 1871-1884 ; The Holiness controversy: 1874-1879 ; Onward to Port Jervis: March 1878-1879 ; Schooling at Asbury Park, Pennington, Claverack: March 1880-Spring 1890 ; College at Lafayette and Syracuse: September 1890-May 1891 -- Learning the craft. Fledgling writer: 1887-December 1891 ; Satirist in Asbury Park: Summer 1892 ; Maggie: September 1892-March 1893 ; Genesis of The Red Badge of Courage: 1893-February 1894 ; Struggling artist, poet at work: February-March 1894 ; Frustrated artist: April-December 1894 ; On the verge of celebrity: January-October 1895 -- Fame, notoriety, an altered point of view. International fame: Fall 1895-Spring 1896 ; Price of fame: January-September 1896 ; The Dora Clark incident: Fall 1896 ; Jacksonville: November-December 1896 ; The Commodore incident: January 1897 ; The Greco-Turkish War: January-May 1897 -- New start, old habits. Ravensbrook, Harold Frederic, Joseph Conrad: June-October 1897 ; Creative outburst: October 1897-April 1898 ; Prelude to war: January-May 1898 ; War in Cuba: June-July 1898 ; New York City, Adirondacks, Puerto Rico: July-August 1898 ; Havana: September-December 1898 -- Search for respectability, Country Squire. Brede Place, return to childhood, another potboiler: January-June 1899 ; Brede Place visitors, return to ancestry: June-August 1899 ; Trips to Europe, final celebration, Badenweiler: September 1899-June 1900.
With the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as challenging to biographers as the author of 'The Red Badge of Courage'. Stephen Crane's short, compact life --